Joe Biden is stepping down from the White House and will be leaving office on January 20th, 2020. Joe Biden has already pardoned over 1,000 people and is on his way to leaving office. The Biden administration has also been making headlines for some of the things they are doing to fight climate change and other environmental crimes. The Great America Show's Victor Avila joins me to talk about this and much more.
00:02:54.700Victor, it's great to have you back here on The Great America Show.
00:02:58.820I want to begin with that first, because you're somebody who knows a little bit about the border
00:03:03.080and how we've allowed it to be wide open with illegals and drugs and human trafficking pouring in.
00:03:09.820The first EPA-related arrests, Victor.
00:03:13.960Are you proud of this country or what?
00:03:16.500What about the priorities being as screwed up as, you know, it's been upside down and backwards these last four years.
00:03:22.940And I can't wait for the real priorities, public safety, national security, the economy,
00:03:29.780to be the forefront of what this administration, and I'm talking about the Trump administration,
00:03:37.020tackling everyday American issues that affect Americans all the way down to their neighborhoods.
00:03:44.540And you're going to see a dramatic change, this nonsense of climate change and all that.
00:03:50.140You're going to see, first of all, the funding go away for all those type of investigations.
00:03:54.600That's not going to – that money that was possibly used for that is going to be used for the investigations that we really want as Americans.
00:04:02.660As a matter of fact, the American people spoke and said that they want it.
00:09:57.020We've turned over the border to the cartels.
00:09:59.460We allow them to run this smuggling operation, and nobody seems to care on the left.
00:10:04.380The Joy Bejars, the Whoopi Goldbergs, where is your heart?
00:10:07.740Where is your heart for these folks who think they're coming to America for a better life, but don't realize what they have to do to get here?
00:10:14.260And when they get here, it's not all the grass is greener on the other side.
00:10:18.980Well, I thought they were supposed to be humanitarian, right?
00:10:21.240And they never care about that because, yes, Biden, Mallorca, Harris, they have blood on their hands.
00:10:29.380They have deliberately put these people in these conditions to begin with because of what you just said,
00:10:35.920of the invitation and the magnets that are currently present in this country.
00:10:55.960I'm talking about the biggest issues of why, the reason they come here to begin with.
00:10:59.960When you take away those incentives and secure the border, they're not going to pay the $20,000 to the cartel because it's going to be lost money.
00:11:08.240Right now, by the way, right now, the smuggling, because of what's happening in this transition period, the smuggling is through the roof.
00:11:16.420Hundreds of stash houses are being located along El Paso, Texas, Laredo, Texas, and these border towns because they know that even though we have small groups of showing up in Eagle Pass, again, 200, 150, and so in El Paso,
00:11:30.500there's a lot of them that don't want to go through this process and say, I better get in, and I'm going to pay extra money to get smuggled and not detected at all.
00:11:36.840So, Victor, how do we, you know, the problem is, and there was a story on this about two weeks ago, I think it was in the New York Post,
00:11:43.820that the folks in the construction industry are very upset because Trump wants to deport these illegals,
00:11:51.840and a lot of these folks get their employees through illegal immigration, as I mentioned, restaurants being some of the biggest folks, construction being another big one.
00:12:00.340This is my issue. Things after COVID, Victor, the prices, now, I don't know where you live if it's gotten this bad,
00:12:08.000but in New York, we obviously had inflation, it took a hit, but it wasn't as bad as some of these restauranteers have made it.
00:12:14.980They've raised the price. Victor, you can't go into a restaurant here in New York and get a Caesar salad for less than like 15 or 16 bucks.
00:12:21.000Now, I know the price of lettuce is maybe went up 50 or 60 cents. It doesn't reflect the three or four dollars that you guys are charging extra on the menu.
00:12:29.420The way I understand it is these illegals now are demanding more money.
00:12:33.900They see how much more money is coming into the restaurant, and they're demanding more money from these restaurant owners, from these construction owners.
00:12:40.340It used to be, Victor, where I live here in New York, if you're doing a construction job, you're going down to the local Home Depot.
00:12:46.000Yes. And you pick up one of the fellows there. By the way, Victor, this is another thing I've seen change over the course of the last few years.
00:12:55.980It used to go and it was Hispanic folks. You'd see some Mexican fellows. You'd see some Venezuelans.
00:13:02.940Now you go and they're not there anymore. It's predominantly Haitians, people from Senegal.
00:13:09.020I don't know what's going on at the border, where the where the people from Mexico are going, where the people from Venezuela are going, where the people from Honduras are going.
00:13:17.860But it's predominantly now here, people from Senegal and people from Haiti.
00:13:21.220And I'm not saying that based on their skin color. I've spoken to these people and I've asked them where they're from because I'm curious.
00:13:26.840So we're seeing a shift there. But now, Victor, it used to be you'd go get these guys for 100 bucks a day.
00:13:31.440Now they want 150 bucks, 200 bucks a day. If you tell them you're doing masonry work, no thank you.
00:13:36.020They're getting spoiled. So the second we tell these people, these these restaurant owners, these construction workers, you can't hire these folks.
00:13:45.820I think we can settle down the problem because these people have no jobs now, which is how I think you have to tackle it because they only come here because of work.
00:13:53.860How can we hold these people, these were these owners of companies responsible to stop hiring these illegals because they are the problem?
00:14:02.020Here's here's the key. And you haven't heard it in the last four years.
00:14:06.400It's called worksite enforcement that both HSI, Homeland Security Investigations and ICE, ERO, Enforcement Removal Operations, work on.
00:14:14.540These groups have been non-existent for the last four years.
00:14:18.620They 100 percent focus on employers hiring the aliens.
00:14:22.300And we're not we're talking about the construction business, the restaurant business, the food packing industries and those type of businesses.
00:14:29.660Now you're going to go. They're going to go after the employers.
00:14:32.480These groups are going to be up and running again and they're going to go tackle.
00:14:36.940Now, here's the thing is that most of the time there's this huge fine, right, that's imposed on these companies.
00:14:43.060And they don't really care because they have the billions of dollars to pay.
00:14:46.480It's going to have to be an example of a criminal prosecution of some of these employers that is going to get their attention and say, wait a minute, I don't want to go to federal prison.
00:14:55.120Well, unless you stop hiring these illegal aliens.
00:14:58.480And once you start doing that and it's all about enforcement of the law, by the way, there's no new laws to be invented here.
00:15:04.940We're just going to dust off the book that hasn't been used and we're going to open those pages up to those laws and enforce them.
00:15:13.200And these, you know, sanctuary cities like Chicago and kind of kind of glad that New York is kind of jumping on board.
00:15:20.200I think they don't have a they don't have a choice.
00:15:22.840But Chicago is still now this morning saying that Tom Homan doesn't have any authority as the borders are.
00:15:27.620He's going to find out the hard way the authority that he has.
00:15:30.760And and we're kind of saying, you know, like Tom is saying, just stay out of the way.
00:15:35.140Let us do our job. But if you get in front of us and try to impede and obstruct the federal government, you're going to find yourself in handcuffs.
00:15:42.260Victor, there's a saying for that. I can't say it on air because of the integrity.
00:15:45.660Lou did not like when I curse, but there's a saying it's F around and find out.
00:15:49.400And these folks are soon going to find out. I want to take a quick break here.
00:15:52.360And I do want to take up Tom Homan meeting with Mayor Eric Adams this week and J.B. Pritzker saying that.
00:15:56.820But I also want to go a little bit further into the employment issue and how some of these folks are getting around Social Security numbers.
00:16:04.580We're coming right back with Victor Avila.
00:16:06.460He's a retired supervisory special agent with ICE, an organization we love so much.
00:16:11.660We're coming right back with Victor. Stay with us.
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00:18:01.840How are we going to crack down on this?
00:18:03.760I mean, how do you, you know, felonize these people to stop this?
00:18:08.540Because what you're going to hear from these people, Victor, is we can't afford to stay in business if we don't hire illegals.
00:18:13.620Well, that's total bullshit because 20 years ago we didn't have all these illegals in this country taking these jobs, right?
00:18:20.060You went to the back of a restaurant and you'd see an old Italian guy working there off the boat from Italy, a citizen.
00:18:25.140You'd go to an Irish pub and you had an Irish guy in the back working in the Irish pub.
00:18:29.200I mean, you go down the list of things.
00:18:31.320But we didn't have this issue 25 years ago.
00:18:33.040You didn't walk into the back kitchen of a restaurant and find 10 illegals there.
00:18:36.800You didn't go on a construction site and see 15 illegals working there.
00:18:40.500How do we get rid of the notion that we've got to go out of business if we can't hire these illegals?
00:18:47.560And I'm glad you're bringing that point because this is the point that nobody really talks about when it comes to the employment of legal aliens.
00:18:53.000We're talking about the fraud, the document fraud, the benefit fraud that occurs.
00:18:57.560And I worked a lot of these cases as an agent.
00:19:00.680These are criminal organizations, a lot of them tied to the cartels.
00:19:03.940So this is how the employer sometimes washes their hands, says, well, even though they know that this guy is illegal, but shows up with this social security number that doesn't belong to them.
00:19:28.600And so the benefit fraud and the investigations of the organizations providing the driver's license, providing the fake social security numbers, the fake birth certificates, not only of dead people, of people that are like you and me alive and steal their identity, but all this fraud that is surrounded that.
00:19:48.440It's not just the employer, you know, hiring an illegal alien under the books, cash.
00:19:57.040But, of course, E-Verify is going to be huge.
00:19:59.900It's going to be huge because E-Verify, these employers are going to have to go through the system of E-Verify, and that alone will reduce dramatically the amount of people that then can get present the document.
00:20:14.460When an illegal alien presents, comes to an employer and presents a fraudulent document, this is where the check with the E-Verify and the I-9 form comes in, and they're going to do cross these cross-references and say, you're not the same person.
00:20:27.020Well, that's another crime that the illegal alien committed, actually.
00:20:31.120It doesn't excuse the illegal anymore.
00:20:33.320And sometimes the illegal gets kind of given a pass because, well, I just came here to work.
00:20:38.740Well, not only anymore, because now you actually committed fraud, you committed identity theft, you committed several other federal offenses here that you know well that what you were doing, and now you're going to be held accountable for it.
00:20:50.140So all that is going to now be – you're going to hear about these cases now that you haven't heard because, again, there's a group under the HSI Homeland Security Investigations.
00:20:59.580These are groups within the special agent in charge across the country called benefit and groups that go out there, and all they do is investigate these type of frauds.
00:21:15.440All these different types of frauds that illegals try to get in to employers and manipulate our system are going to finally be looked at, and they're going to be held accountable.
00:21:25.020Marriage frauds, I just read an article yesterday, that girl who came from Hawaii, I don't know if you saw it, but the girl who went to L.A., she was going to New York, she went missing.
00:21:35.600After L.A., her father wound up killing himself because he couldn't find his daughter for two weeks, was engaged in marriage fraud.
00:21:41.720She went on a trip with her boyfriend.
00:21:43.320They wanted to go to New York so they can take pictures to try to fool the system.
00:21:46.720By the way, let me say something really quick.
00:21:49.480The other agency here that you're going to hear a lot about is USCIS, U.S. Immigration and Citizen Services.
00:21:56.500There's going to be a lot of cleanup there.
00:21:58.640They're the ones that sometimes are the first ones to detect this fraud, but obviously in the last four years haven't done anything about it.
00:22:04.860This is where a lot of people are going to be caught through that process.
00:22:10.200The Republicans and the Democrats both, because they're both guilty of this, always want to spend money, Victor.
00:22:15.060They want to send money over to Ukraine.
00:22:16.360I can't wait to spend money on programs like CIS, ICE, DHS, and dumping billions and billions of more dollars into it because this is agencies that really need it.
00:22:27.160Going back to some of these employees that these people are hiring, it really pisses me off, Victor, because going through college, I worked as a DJ.
00:22:40.640It made me appreciate the value of money, and I was fortunate enough to have my parents pay for my college.
00:22:45.900So, you know, I'd go out and work, and I was a college kid with all this damn money that I was out there making, and it made me appreciate it.
00:23:00.480When you go to a 7-Eleven, when you go to a Dunkin' Donuts, now it may be a massive corporation, but they're people who buy these corporations, and they're operated individually.
00:23:08.080When you go to a gas station, these folks are making minimum wage.
00:23:11.000When you go to a Walmart, they're making minimum wage, and they somehow manage to get by.
00:23:40.860I'll tell you what's going to be exposed, and it's going to be exposed on these employers that exploit these individuals because you're absolutely right.
00:23:50.720They don't want to pay them the fair wage, and there's a lot of exploitation, labor exploitation, as you're going to see.
00:23:56.600As a matter of fact, we've already been seeing it this past year because we talk about sex trafficking a lot.
00:24:02.180Well, there's labor trafficking of a lot of these individuals, and a lot of them are children that are being put in meatpacking plants in Florida, 9-, 10-year-olds working in these chicken factories.
00:24:12.340And so you're going to see a lot of that come to an end because these employers are not going to get away with this anymore because they want to save their money, their earnings, their pocketbook, which is the only advantage that they have.
00:24:29.800Construction of houses is not going to be impacted.
00:24:33.520In the 1960s, when immigration was low, we still built houses and buildings in this country.
00:24:38.980And so the only difference here is that if you want to do it right and you want to come to the U.S., you're going to see different opportunities to do it the legal way.
00:24:49.780But for now, you're going to have to go back to your home country and start that process again.
00:24:53.860And, Victor, I don't want to sound like a broken record here, but it's a matter of dollars and cents.
00:25:00.860You know, it's not a matter of paying someone $150 a day versus $300 a day.
00:25:05.980It's a matter of paying someone $150 a day versus $175 a day and paying the tax on it, being a law-abiding citizen, paying taxes.
00:25:13.460I've always worked, you know, W-2 jobs, so I've never had a chance to escape taxes.
00:25:17.700But all these people, Victor, now the whole no tax on tips, I'm all in favor of that.
00:25:22.880These people are doing the service industry.
00:25:24.840They shouldn't be paying tax on tips, in my opinion.
00:25:30.880And a lot of these restaurant owners, and I use them because I have a lot of friends who are restauranteers, it's a matter of dollars and cents.
00:25:37.420The other thing is the justification of prices.
00:25:39.320I have a family friend, Victor, who wanted to do an extension on their house in New York in, I think, probably 2014, 2015.
00:25:48.200Four years later, it was close to $700,000 for the same renovation.
00:25:52.500There is no possible way, inflation included, to justify a doubling of price because I guarantee you these folks who work for them weren't making double the money, what they were making in 2012 or 13 versus 2015, 2016.
00:26:38.480And I talked to him right after the announcement, and he is ready to go.
00:26:44.220As you know, he was the chief of Border Patrol.
00:26:47.080And one thing that Rodney's going to bring, he has integrity.
00:26:50.360He's the one that the Biden administration basically forced him out because he wasn't going to do what Border Patrol was forced to do the last four years.
00:26:58.460He said, I'm not going to participate in this.
00:27:00.140And so that's the type of integrity that Rodney Scott brings as CBP commissioner, which oversees Border Patrol and CBP Customs at the ports of entry and airports.
00:27:10.040And there's going to be a lot of attention being placed there because of the trade, of the negotiations that we're going to do with Mexico.
00:27:18.520Remember, we don't talk about ports of entry a lot, but there's a lot that we can do there.
00:27:23.720I kid around with Rodney and I said, well, maybe it'll be 100% checks, Rodney.
00:27:28.900Initially, 100% checks on every single person and every single vehicle coming through that.
00:27:34.220You know the type of chaos that it would cause on the Mexican side?
00:27:38.920And I'm talking about it affects everyone.
00:27:41.940And this is the problem is that the United States doesn't want to affect the free trade and the fair trade and the legal people that come in back and forth on the border.
00:27:56.720The legal system of that has always existed.
00:27:59.400The problem is that they get affected with all the other criminal activity that happens at the border and the cartels and the smuggling of people and drugs.
00:28:08.400And so, unfortunately, sometimes there's going to be some sacrifices, but there's a lot of things that could be done on the line, not that border, in between the ports of entry.
00:28:21.160There's going to be a team effort there.
00:28:22.540You're going to see these different directors and commissioners from different agencies come together along with the Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem.
00:28:32.620It's going to be a group effort of people that know how to do it.
00:28:36.440And you're going to see a dramatic impact.
00:28:38.820Right away, by the way, the border is going to be something you have to wait about.
00:28:42.240The deportation and all that, it's going to be, you know, it's going to be implemented.
00:28:45.720And you're going to start seeing them maybe a little bit slower, but you're going to see the dramatic impact on day one at the border.
00:31:13.660We spoke about our southern border in great depth in these first two segments.
00:31:17.660I want to talk about something people don't talk about a lot, and that's our northern border.
00:31:22.400President Trump met with Justin Trudeau just weeks after winning the election.
00:31:27.780Trudeau ran down to Mar-a-Lago because President Trump used the T word, and no, not Trudeau, the tariff word.
00:31:33.900And it seems to be a great bargaining chip because this man caved like a cheap folding chair that Joe Biden uses at the beach.
00:31:40.240Trudeau now is having a rough time dealing with his Trump derangement syndrome, excoriating America for not electing the first female president.
00:33:27.520It doesn't work with the American people anymore.
00:33:29.780People want a qualified, vetted person in these positions, and they're going to see that with the new Trump administration and the people that are being selected to place there.
00:33:38.720Speaking of women, who did he pick to run DHS, Victor?
00:33:48.580She's on board to – I know she's on board with Tom Holman and Rodney Scott and all to get this agenda, the mission, the homeland security mission.
00:33:58.220There is one, by the way, to protect our sovereignty and our borders.
00:34:01.520And you're going to see that really drastic change, especially coming from under the regime of Mayorkas in the last four years.
00:34:09.440You know what he's – I hate that man more than – I don't hate anybody, Victor, but I hate that man for what he's done to this country, for all the problems he's caused in this country.
00:34:17.400And he gets up there arrogant and pompous, like, who the hell he is?
00:34:22.160You know, the fact that the Republicans couldn't get through to impeach that man and make his life living hell, it absolutely enrages me because he's a criminal.
00:34:29.080For what he's allowed to happen in this country, he's a criminal.
00:34:32.460But we're talking now optimistically about a new regime.
00:34:39.380But the Trump administration coming in and one of these folks, Tom Holman, I know Tom very well from working with him at Fox News and having him on the show.
00:34:49.820And I know Tom to be a straight shooter.
00:35:41.300The man understands what we as individuals, as he was an agent, a Border Patrol agent himself, have seen the dead bodies, have seen the dead children, the rape children that him and I have seen firsthand.
00:39:00.520And I don't think they're going to be able to afford that spotlight when the American people are demanding this mandate that you heard of, right, that they want.
00:39:14.860They got away with it with voting with the left for so many years.
00:39:18.080They're not going to get away with it now.
00:39:19.600There'll be too much pressure, especially in Texas, for these representatives to pretend that because they're rhinos, they're Democrats in disguise.
00:39:27.440And so that's the only issue I foresee, that our own Republican Party will be the ones that are actually opposed to it.
00:39:33.940Well, Victor, I have a rebuttal to that, and you might like it.
00:42:14.280And I'm like, we don't care what they say because we're not going to we're not asking them to do anything illegal.
00:42:19.240We're just going to ask them to follow the law and they will be doing absolutely nothing wrong in helping ICE find these guys and send them back home.
00:42:27.240You know, I don't know if you watch the show or not, Victor, but you're saying exactly what I say every single day on the show.
00:42:33.160I'm not asking you to recreate the law.
00:42:38.180And if you follow the laws that are on these books, Victor, you get to an end result that gets these people the hell out of this country and these towns secured.
00:42:45.760Now, it's going to take each and every one of us to do this.
00:42:48.340And it's good to see now that there's some folks doing that.
00:43:10.520Kelly, Kelly Martinez saying, quote, the board of supervisors does not set policy for the sheriff's office.
00:43:16.580The sheriff, as an independently elected official, sets the policy for the sheriff's office.
00:43:20.960California law prohibits the board of supervisors from interfering with independent, constitutionally and statutory designated investigations a function of the sheriff.
00:44:23.160We want our children to go back and ride their bicycles where we're used to.
00:44:26.500We want to be able to visit parts of town that we haven't been able to visit because it's full of illegals and crime written in these areas.
00:44:33.780And when people start realizing that it's only going to get stronger, and you mentioned something about the elections and everything else about how the people, you know, where we got what we got.
00:44:43.820Well, I think that if we want to win this election, which you just said, and I believe 100 percent, this is where we get the opportunity to continue this, not just for four years, but the next 12, 18 years.
00:44:55.060Because this is this is the movement that the American people are recognizing that this is the right path, because one, it's the truth.
00:45:04.460One, it's it's what this is the American dream rather than the fundamental change that the left was trying to do by all these different means, right, by destroying this country.
00:45:15.100And now we're in the right path and makes you know, it brings a smile to my face.